Word: beholding
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...Life--" the carnival barker shouts, striking a frightening pose and pausing dramatically, his crazed face illuminated by the kerosene lamp, "is full of surprises...behold the Terriblele Elephant Man." The curtain is swept away. In the mist and shadows, only the silhouette of the sideshow freak is visible--the twisted, lumpy torso and the horrid, enormous head. The place is London, the year is 1883, and John Merrick, a victim of fate and society, meets Dr. Frederick Treves, the man who will change his life...
...reason to live; thus he cannot permit his dream to be trifled with. As there was in Demme's equally expert 1977 film Handle with Care, there is affection without patronization here, an unforced appreciation of eccentricity that, in the age of Animal House, is wonderful to behold...
...Behold, my child, the Nordic Man And be as like him as you can. His legs are long; his mind is slow; His hair is lank and made...
Long before Bill Walton or Alvin Adams garnered plaudits as a new breed of center who could, lo and behold, pass the ball in addition to shooting it and retrieving it, Cowens was adding a new facet to the Celtics' offense by making them truly a five-man threat in their patterned passing game. He contributed to the offense with equal skill from the top of the key or under the basket, and was a recognized leader on a team with such pros as John Havilick and Jo Jo White...
Billionaire Daniel K. Ludwig, 82, views publicity as did Howard Hughes: less is more, none is bliss. Thus Johns Hopkins University was uncertain last week whether the legendary shipowner-entrepreneur would show up for an honorary degree. Lo and behold, he did. Photographers naturally focused on the new doctor of humane letters in his gold robe and white hood. "You've never had this many pictures taken in your life, have you?" joshed President Steven Muller. "Not willingly," grumbled the last tycoon. "But now I think I kinda like...